SWIFTSW350T 40X-2500X Magnification, Siedentopf Head, Research-Grade Trinocular Compound Lab Microscope with Wide-Field 10X and 25X Eyepieces, Mechanical Stage, Abbe Condenser, Camera-Compatible

This is a very easy to use, well designed and very clear resolution microscope with fine focus adjustment. Great value at this price range!

The media could not be loaded. This microscope is a great addition to my aquarium business and snail research! The picture and video show a rotifer eating some phytoplankton. It's definitely not a high end microscope, but much better than the cheap monocular ones. In my opinion it's a great option if you want a pretty decent home microscope.I haven't tried the camera adapter portion yet. I got the picture and video by placing my phone on a tripod and aligning it just right to see inside the microscope. The video is a time lapse.

Designed primarily for backlit microscope slide samples. Accepts relatively inexpensive microscope cameras. The 5MP camera gives a resolution of ~50nm/pixel at 1000x. There are no zoom lenses so you use 8 different magnifications by changing the eyepiece and rotating the objectives. You can front-light a sample with a microscope light but small samples may fall through the stage.

Excellent scope! I paired mine with the Swift 5MP camera. This unit is very well made, tolerances are tight and no backlash exists in any of the mechanisms. Its heavy, and has a very professional feel. Packing was excellent, plenty of foam padding and was very well wrapped to prevent dust from entering optics. Great scope right out of the box, no tweaking or cleaning required. The LED lighting is amazing.

I've used plenty of microscopes in the past, wanted to try a trinocular for the first time. The SW350 doesn't match up to super high end microscopes I've used in labs, but I didn't expect it to since those can run thousands of dollars. For hobbyists and at the high school and even college level, this is a great microscope, esp at this price point. Sharp focusing through each magnification level, controls are really smooth, and the LED bulb is very bright without getting hot. Base is stable and quite weighty -- I'm glad they included an arm handle to make it easier to carry!Especially love the trinocular port. Since the microscope came with two sets of eyepieces, I could try it out right away. Attached a couple pictures I took on my phone that show a slide with the 10x lens in the third port and the 25x lenses in the binoculars. Clarity was fantastic and I can see that the third port would be really useful for teaching little kids or students about microscopy because you could make adjustments for them as everyone's looking at the same thing.

We bought this microscope a few years back for our kids to explore science at home, and overall, it’s been a great tool. The build is solid, the images are clear, and the camera makes it fun for the whole family to check things out on the screen. Our kids have really enjoyed using it.That said, we were pretty disappointed to find that the 100X lens doesn’t work at all. It took us a while to notice because we mostly used the lower magnifications at first. By the time we realized it wasn’t functioning, the return window had closed—and I couldn’t find any way to contact the seller to get it fixed or replaced.It’s frustrating because this was supposed to be a long-term educational tool for our kids, and we can’t take full advantage of its potential. Everything else works great, but not having that 100X lens really limits what we can do.If you're considering this microscope, I’d still say it’s a good buy—just make sure you test every lens right when it arrives so you don’t end up in the same situation.

A couple of years ago I purchased an Amscope B120C compound microscope for just under $200 and found it excellent value for money. Among other things I used it for monitoring plankton samples typically at 40-100x magnification. I tried several methods for taking photos, including through the eye piece and with an Amscope D-SLR adapter, but in the end I got the best results by removing the binocular headpiece and mounting my camcorder via a telescope eye-piece and a custom-built tube (old vacuum cleaner pipe). At this point I wished I had purchased a trinocular microscope so I could scan the sample through the eyepieces and take pictures/movies of species of interest. I wrote to Amscope to see if they sold the trinocular headpiece separately and they said no (but to be fair their complete trinocular microscope was much cheaper than just a trinocular headpiece of other brands). Then I came across the Swift 350T trinocular microscope at just over $200. From the pictures it seemed very similar to the Amscope 120 in design, apart from the handle built into the stand - so I decided to order it. On delivery I could see clear similarities in the build, suggesting some parts were manufactured in the same factory (Swift on the left in photo). There were minor differences in the stage and the condenser adjustment was a helical mount rather than rack and pinion. The headpieces were interchangeable between the AmScope and Swift. The quality of the images was identical as far as I could tell. The camera port on the trinocular headpiece came with several threaded tubes and I was able to attach my Eagle Optics eyepiece (unfortunately no longer available) via couple of step-down camera filter rings. This telescope eyepiece has a large diameter and long eye-relief distance which makes it easier to attach a camera or camcorder. By good fortune the telescope eyepiece and regular eyepieces ended up being parfocal, making it easy to take a picture when something of interest is found by eye. The trinocular head permanently splits the beam roughly 50:50 between camera port and eyepieces (i.e. each eyepiece gets around 25% of the light). The LED is bright enough to give good dark-field images when a back stop is inserted into the filter holder (example phytoplankton shown in photo) and more than adequate for normal bright-field illumination. All in all, the Swift 350 is an excellent microscope for the money and ideal for the serious student and hobbyist.